I agree this is not a bug but it has a nasty side effect if you do not watch
out.
In practice I am never interested in putting sudo into the background but
the command after it.
You think it is easily fixed? Where in the code will this check need to
arise?
On 10/8/07, Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:
>> So basically you are typing your password into your shell after
> you've suspended sudo by putting it in the background.
>> I don't consider this a bug but I suppose it should be possible to
> avoid printing the password prompt the first time if sudo has been
> backgrounded.
>> - todd
>
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